authentication

As Twitter gets ready to roll out two-factor authentication, here's a rundown of how other major online services use the security feature.

Apple on Thursday unveiled two-step authentication for Apple and iCloud IDs. As first reported by 9to5 Mac, you can now add the extra level of security to your accounts by heading to Apple's website.

When Phil Dunkelberger co-founded PGP Corp. in 2002 with Jon Callas, it was to acquire the codebase for the famous encryption technology known as "Pretty Good Privacy" which had been sold to Networks Associates in 1997. That proved a good move for public-key encryption, and now Dunkelberger says his next project -- the formation of a company called Nok Nok Labs -- involves a revolutionary way to support authentication in corporate networks and the cloud.

Find out how to implement authentication and authorization security controls in your company, with help from our expert guide

Intel today announced the availability of a cloud-based single sign-on (SSO) authentication and authorization service under a beta program that is expected to become a generally available offering later this spring.

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Last year, administrators in the City of Winter Park, Fla., realized they had a serious compliance risk in their police department. The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division has regulations that call for tight access controls for records. However, many officers share workstations and, therefore, also share passwords. The solution, they realized, was to deploy fingerprint scanners that would enable individual authentication.

VMware Horizon App Manager will provice a single sign on for all of an organization's cloud applications

Company exec warns customers that stolen information could be used to more easily penetrate customers' systems.

Google is expanding the use of two-step verification to include all Google accounts. The security measure--implemented for Google Apps customers a few months ago--protects your Google account from being hijacked or compromised.